H.D.

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States – September 27, 1961, Zürich, Switzerland), usually known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist.

Quotes

 * For one moment seek a lesser beauty and a lesser grace, but you will find no peace in the end save in her presence.
 * Amaranth.


 * Be indigestible, hard, ungiving. so that, living within, you beget, self-out-of-self, selfless, that pearl-of-great-price.
 * The Walls Do Not Fall.


 * The reason is: rats leave the sinking ship but we... we... didn't leave, so the ship didn't sink, and that's madness, Lear's song that's Touchstone's forest jest, that's swan of Avon logic.
 * May 1943.


 * We don't have to know, only to be: let go the jumble of worn words, reason and vanity.
 * Star by Day.

Quotes about H.D.

 * I knew all the poets-their poems-when I was quite young. (Who were your favorites?) G.P.: I loved Robinson Jeffers. I loved Auden, I loved H.D.
 * 1981 interview in Conversations with Grace Paley edited by Gerhard Bach & Blaine Hall (2013)